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Stanford, MIT and Harvard top the second annual Reuters Top 100 ranking of the most innovative universities



NEW YORK – Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University top the second annual Reuters Top 100 ranking of the world’s most innovative universities. The Reuters Top 100 ranking aims to identify the institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy. Unlike other rankings that often rely entirely or in part on subjective surveys, the ranking uses proprietary data and analysis tools from the Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters to examine a series of patent and research-related metrics, and get to the essence of what it means to be truly innovative.
In the fast-changing world of science and technology, if you're not innovating, you're falling behind. That’s one of the key findings of this year’s Reuters 100. The 2016 results show that big breakthroughs – even just one highly influential paper or patent – can drive a university way up the list, but when that discovery fades into the past, so does its ranking. Consistency is key, with truly innovative institutions putting out groundbreaking work year after year.
Stanford held fast to its first place ranking by consistently producing new patents and papers that influence researchers elsewhere in academia and in private industry. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ranked #2) were behind some of the most important innovations of the past century, including the development of digital computers and the completion of the Human Genome Project. Harvard University (ranked #3), is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and has produced 47 Nobel laureates over the course of its 380-year history.
Some universities saw significant movement up the list, including, most notably, the University of Chicago, which jumped from #71 last year to #47 in 2016. Other list-climbers include the Netherlands' Delft University of Technology (#73 to #44) and South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University (#66 to #46).
The United States continues to dominate the list, with 46 universities in the top 100; Japan is once again the second best performing country, with nine universities. France and South Korea are tied in third, each with eight. Germany has seven ranked universities; the United Kingdom has five; Switzerland, Belgium and Israel have three; Denmark, China and Canada have two; and the Netherlands and Singapore each have one.
For more on the Reuters Top 100, including a detailed methodology and profiles of the universities, visit www.reuters.com/most-innovative-universities-2016.
The Reuters Top 100: The World’s Most Innovative Universities
1          Stanford University
2          Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
3          Harvard University
4          University of Texas System
5          University of Washington System
6          KAIST
7          University of Michigan System
8          University of Pennsylvania
9          KU Leuven
10         Northwestern University
11         Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)
12         Imperial College London
13         University of Wisconsin System
14         Duke University
15         University of California System
16         University of Tokyo
17         University of Southern California
18         Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
19         University of Cambridge
20         Vanderbilt University
21         Osaka University
22         University of Illinois System
23         Johns Hopkins University
24         Georgia Institute of Technology
25         Ohio State University
26         Cornell University
27         University of Oxford
28         California Institute of Technology
29         Kyoto University
30         Seoul National University
31         Tohoku University
32         Princeton University
33         Purdue University System
34         Tufts University
35         Oregon Health & Science University
36         University of North Carolina System
37         Indiana University System
38         Technical University of Munich
39         University of Pittsburgh
40         University of Utah
41         Boston University
42         Columbia University
43         Tokyo Institute of Technology
44         Delft University of Technology
45         University of Colorado System
46         Sungkyunkwan University
47         University of Chicago
48         Keio University
49         University of Erlangen Nuremberg
50         University of British Columbia
51         Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
52         University of Massachusetts System
53         Technical University of Denmark
54         Yale University
55         Yonsei University
56         Emory University
57         University of Toronto
58         University of Zurich
59         Technion Israel Institute of Technology
60         Pierre & Marie Curie University - Paris 6
61         University of Munich
62         State University System of Florida
63         University of Arizona and Board of Regents
64         National University of Singapore
65         University of Minnesota System
66         Tsinghua University
67         Baylor College of Medicine
68         Hanyang University
69         Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology
70         Peking University
71         University of London
72         Mount Sinai School of Medicine
73         Korea University
74         Ghent University
75         University of Copenhagen
76         University of Rochester
77         University of Claude Bernard - Lyon 1
78         University of Paris Sud - Paris XI
79         Kyushu University
80         State University of New York (SUNY) System
81         University System of Maryland
82         Dresden University of Technology
83         University of Montpellier
84         University of Alabama System
84         Case Western Reserve University
86         University of Freiburg
87         University of Manchester
88         University of Paris Descartes – Paris V
89         Tel Aviv University
90         Nagoya University
91         Rutgers State University
92         Free University of Berlin
93         Grenoble Alpes University
94         Hebrew University of Jerusalem
95         Hokkaido University
96         University of Strasbourg
97         University of Aix-Marseille
98         University Libre Brussels
99         Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg
100       University of Virginia

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